I haven't posted in a while, but thought some people might enjoy this, if you don't have dial-up.

( Life imitates art. Well, not art, really, but TV. Well not TV SHOWS, but, well, you'll see... )

Haven't been posting much, due to channeling my writing impulses into article pitches for one of my favorite websites in a misguided attempt to make money by writing on the internet.  A crazy scheme.  However, I felt the need to inform some of you that Left 4 Dead is coming out next month, and that, if you have a computer and a way to contact me, ( Read more... )

I have just started my new job.  It was nice to sit on my ass paying video games, surfing the web, and occasionally writing things to piss people off or make them laugh, all while getting money for unemployment, but I did need to get a real job eventually.

I've started training to be a customer service rep at Verizon Wireless.  The application ( Read more... )

If you haven't used Steam, the online download/verification system Valve created for securing and distributing its games, you probably won't find this very interesting. If you have used Steam, you might feel some degree of what I do, here.

( The Steam Saga )

I don’t have a problem with creationism in principle. Religious freedom is a necessary component of any free society, so people can believe whatever they want so long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others. Two things make creationists a problem in America, however.
The first problem is that creationists have radical contingent which ( Read more... )

  I noted in Part 1 that liberals were anti-democratic, attempting to use an illusion of majority support to institute policies against majority opinion with a loveable underdog image.  The following essay about conservatives might seem more positive.  The reason for this is that conservatives use more straightforward tactics, making the ( Read more... )

Don't worry, I'll get to conservatives in Part 2.  I haven't installed Word on my new computer, so I'm just posting this straight to LJ.

The most nagging problem with liberals is their version of "diversity."  First, they insist on diversity for its own sake, which is stupid.  Diversity exists for a reason.  Society, like nature, progresses ( Read more... )

I've decided that since I always use LiveJournal to post essays rather than, y'know, journal entries, I'm going to start posting my essays and rants on printnpost.com.  That way, if Hell freezes over--or loses an L--I might actually get some money out of it.

Printnpost.com is an ad-based blog site (I still loathe the word "blog" with every fiber of ( Read more... )

  Thanks to my new favorite game reviewer Yahtzee, who does Zero Punctuation at The Escapist, I've found the game that Doom 3 should have been.  It's called Painkiller, and it's freaking awesome.

I was seriously disappointed by Doom 3.  So disappointed, in fact, I quit during the first real level.  First, you have to go through a long, boring Half ( Read more... )

Remember when I said that in the 50s they considered homosexuality a disease? Even I had no idea how right I was:

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There's plenty more awesome PSAs here, including the whole series of those Canadian "there are no accidents" PSAs, and the incredible anti-suicide-bombing PSA from Iraq. My personal favorite--besides the Iraqi one--is the seatbelt PSA.